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sack
CEFRB2
/sæk/
noun · verb
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In plain English
- 01
noun
A large strong bag used to carry or store things.
- 02
verb
To dismiss someone from a job.
Examples
It is hard for an empty sack to stand straight.
The sack is too heavy to lift—you’ll have to drag it.
At a glance
Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 2
- Citations
- 5
- Synonyms
- 5
Also pronounced
- /sak/
Deep Dive
noun
Extra meaningsThe amount a sack holds; also, an archaic or historical measure of varying capacity, depending on commodity type and according to local usage; an old English measure of weight, usually of wool, equal to 13 stone (182 pounds), or in other sources, 26 stone (36...
The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.
verb
Extra meaningTo put something into a sack or bag.
More examples
In contextI will hit the sack.
He twisted his ankle sliding into the sack at second.
The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels. — .
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Origin
noun
From Middle English sak, sek, sach, zech (“bag, sackcloth”), from Old English sacc (“sack, bag”) and sæċċ (“sackcloth, sacking”); both from Proto-West Germanic *sakku, from late Proto-Germanic *sakkuz (“sack”), borrowed from Latin saccus (“large bag”), from Ancient Greek σάκκος (sákkos, “bag of coarse cloth”), from Semitic, possibly Phoenician or Hebrew. Cognate with Dutch zak, German Sack, Swedish säck, Danish sæk, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk sekk, Faroese and Icelandic sekkur, Hebrew שַׂק (śaq, “sack, sackcloth”), Aramaic סַקָּא, Classical Syriac ܣܩܐ, Ge'ez ሠቅ (śäḳ), Akkadian 𒆭𒊓 (saqqu), Egyptian sꜣgꜣ. Doublet of sac, saccus, saco, and sakkos. Černý and Forbes suggest the wor...